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Invitation to the Second International Gathering of Women Who Struggle
Source: Enlace Zapatista
ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION
MEXICO
INVITATION TO THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL GATHERING OF WOMEN WHO STRUGGLE
September 2019
To women who struggle all over the world:
Sister, compañera, woman in struggle:
We send you greetings, from the indigenous and Zapatista women that we are.
Perhaps you remember that at our First Gathering, we made an agreement that we must live. We see of course that the killing and disappearance of women continues—of women of all ages and social positions. We are killed and disappeared because we are women, and then told it is our fault, that these things happen because of how we were dressed, because of where we were walking, because we were out at certain hours in certain places. Both men and women in the bad government utter such stupidities to imply that we shouldn’t go out at all. According to this mindset, women should be shut up in their homes; they shouldn’t go out, shouldn’t study, shouldn’t work, shouldn’t enjoy themselves, shouldn’t be free.
We see clearly that the capitalist and patriarchal system is like a judge that has declared us guilty of being born women and sentenced us to violence, death, or disappearance.
It’s hard to put it into words, sister and compañeras, it’s like an evil so great that it can’t be named. Now they call it “femicide” or whatever but the name doesn’t change anything, the deaths and disappearances continue to accumulate. And then our families, friends, and acquaintances have to fight so that we are not effectively killed and disappeared all over again when our murderers go unpunished, or when it is said that we were merely victims of bad luck; or worse, that we were asking for it.
(Español) NotiFrayba: Justicia y retorno para desplazados de Acteal
Mujeres, niñas y niños del Pueblo Maya Tsotsil, integrantes de La organización Sociedad Civil Las Abejas de Acteal, de la comunidad Miguel Utrilla, Los Chorros, en Chenalhó, Chiapas, Méxicofueron desplazados el día 16 de septiembre de 2019. Suman 36 personas en desplazamiento forzado que se encuentran en Acteal, Casa de la Memoria y la Esperanza. Las primeras familias se refugiaron en la sede de la organización desde el 10 de agosto del presente año.
Las Abejas de Acteal persisten en la exigencia de justicia y desde su apuesta de paz, exigen condiciones para el retorno con seguridad de las 6 familias.